War of the Worlds: Nature Flashcards
slain by the midgest
Book 2 Chapter 3
‘slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria…slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon the earth
- HUMAN + MARTIAN SMALLNESS, SMALL MOTIF
- CONT: DARWINISM REJECTION
- ‘man’s devices had failed’ - human arrogance is gone
- ‘God’ - reference to higher in contrast of beliefs of the times
- ‘slain’ - heroic, old, verb - repeated
empasihes the unlikeliness of the bacteria slaying
- ‘bacteria’ - smallest thing defeats the largest reversal of the whole book
Narrator looking at slain martians in London
man vs antz
Book 2 - rants about his planned society
‘It never was a war, any more than there’s a war between man and ants’
-MOTIF OF SMALL + INSIGNIFICANT, POWER OF MARTIANS, LNK TO END OF THE BOOK (bacteria win)
-‘man and ants’ - juxtaposition of size to show incredulity of war
‘ants’ - belittles humans
LNK - Infusoria under a microscope
Artilleryman
blood trees
Book 2 Chapter 6
‘ through scarlet and crimson trees towards Kew - it was like walking through an avenue of gigantic blood drop’
- MOTIF OF RED, SIZE, NATURE
- ‘scarlet and crimson’ contrasted with ‘trees’ which are generally associated with green GOTHIC UNCANNY
- ‘drop’ and ‘gigantic’ contrast as drops are generally small showing unnaturalness
Narrator in the end coming towards London
titanic type shi
Book 2 Chapter 6
‘Its swiftly growing and Titanic water fronds speedily choked both those rivers’
- HUMAN VALUE, MARTIAN STRENGTH
- ‘choked’ - human like verb, personifies the red weed of the martians (theyre plants are same levels as humans)
- ‘swiftly’ and ‘speedily’ - clear emphasis on the speed of the growth, showing Martians plants grow better (as they are better)
Narrator on the way to London
things under a microthing
Chapter 1 Book 1
‘infusoria under a microscope’
- SIZE, MARTIAN POWER
- parralel to humans looking at germs, except humans are the germs
- point above dehumanises humans and personifies martians
- shows inklings of martians clinical nature as they are compared to scientists
- ‘under’ - further emphasises humans place
Chapter 1 intro
sapper arrogance
Book 1 Chapter 9
‘Talk about fishers of men - fighters of fish it is this time!/It ain’t no murder killing beasts like that ‘
- HUMAN ARROGANCE
- ‘beasts’ - refers to them as animals, trying to signify them as below humans and less reasonable
sappers talking
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A nature feature destroyed by martians
‘In one night the valley has become a valley of ashes’
- *valley *has connotations of greenery and life
- *ashes *has conntotations of burning and death and finality which juxtaposes valley
- the time phrase emphasises the speed at which the martians were able to accomplish this
